Visits and Events Officer

**Visits and Events Officer - 70261**
**£25,827 - £27,170**
**Cardiff**:
**The Department**:
The Wales Office is the face of the UK Government in Wales and the voice of Wales in Westminster. We support the Secretary of State and his Ministerial team to deliver a flourishing Wales within a strong United Kingdom, working in partnership with other Government Departments and stakeholders.

For more information about what we do please go to:
The Wales Office is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

**The Role**:
Are you looking for a role where your strong communication, organisation and digital skills will be valued and where you will work on interesting projects supporting key UK Government priorities? Are you great at forming professional relationships?

Do you have a keen interest in public affairs of both the Welsh and Westminster landscapes?

If you’re motivated, curious, creative, and looking to take an exciting step in your career, we are looking for someone like you to join our team as a Visits and Events Officer at the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales

You will be joining a supportive and experienced team that encourages new ideas and has an excellent reputation for delivering quality results.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assist in the delivery of visits and events across Wales and London, including by directly supporting with the events schedule for Ministers.
- Identify opportunities to engage through digital channels and optimise the reach of the Department.
- Collate Management Information on visits and events, analysing any relevant data and metrics to make recommendations and track outcomes.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other government departments (particularly their Wales based teams).
- Prepared to travel for Ministerial visits and to support colleagues with meetings with stakeholders.
- Contribute to the department’s out-of-hours service being on duty on a rotational basis (for which there is an allowance)

**Desirable Skills and Experience**:

- Experience of working in a busy events or relationship management role
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to respond to competing priorities.
- Excellent IT skills
- Digital content creation

**Essential Criteria**:

- Excellent oral and written communications skills with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to ‘connect’ issues and seek out opportunities to deliver quality outcomes
- Good digital skills with awareness of social media and its impacts.
- Demonstrate resilience and experience of delivering effectively in a fast paced, changing environment.
- Able to travel to various locations in Wales and to London

**How to apply**:

- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Managing a quality service

We are proud to be an accredited ‘Smarter Working’ organisation and people are at the heart of everything we do.We offer flexible working arrangements, great workplaces, and modern IT facilities.

**Security clearance to CTC level will be required for this post.**:
**Salary**:
£25,827 - £27,170

**Additional Information**:
**Working Arrangements & Further Information**:
**Flexible working hours**:
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices.

**Benefits**:
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
**Annual Leave**:
Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.

There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.

**Pension**:
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.

**Training**:
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.

**Networks**:
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

**Support**:

- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

**Working for the Civil Service**:
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competitio